More and Less Rounded
| More or less rounded | |
|---|---|
| ◌̹ | |
| ◌̜ |
There are also diacritics, respectively U+0339 ̹ combining right half ring below and U+031C ̜ combining left half ring below, to indicate greater or lesser degrees of rounding. For example, the English near-close near-back vowel often has very little rounding, and may be transcribed . In Assamese, on the other hand, the open back rounded vowel is much more rounded than is typical for a low vowel, and may be transcribed .
These diacritics are sometimes also used with consonants to indicate degrees of labialization. For example, in the Athabaskan language Hupa, voiceless velar fricatives distinguish three degrees of labialization, transcribed either or .
The Extensions to the IPA have two additional symbols for degrees of rounding: spread, as in, and open-rounded ⟨ꟹ⟩, as in English and .
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